Erez Manela
Biographic Data
| ID | 1147207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erez Manela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erez |
| FAMILY NAME | Manela |
| SIGNATURE | MANELA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonization and Its Discontents
This special issue seeks to probe the nature of the ostensible transition from ‘anticolonial’ to ‘postcolonial’ and its implications, focusing on historical actors who sought to remobilize across multiple political and spatial scales: that is, actors who thought and acted locally and globally. It asks: What discontents did decolonization bring in its wake, and what opportunities persisted for political activism across borders as the world shifted…
The “Winds of Change” Blew in Many Directions
In September 2023, a group of scholars gathered to discuss histories of decolonization, and particularly histories of dissent and opposition in the aftermath of political independence. This roundtable, and the broader special section of which it is part, places “decolonization's discontents” at the center of the postindependence narrative(s) to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both…
The Geneva Crucible
Journal Article The Geneva Crucible Get access David Ekbladh. Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp. $40.00 (paperback). Erez Manela Erez Manela [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad078, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad078 Published: 19 October 2023
The Anticolonial Transnational
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
The League Against Imperialism
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide. The League against Imperialism (LAI) attracted anticolonial activists like India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta, as well as prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, Er…
International Society as a Historical Subject
Journal Article International Society as a Historical Subject Get access Erez Manela Erez Manela [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 184–209, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhz071 Published: 17 February 2020
Asia in the Global 1919
Perhaps the first thing to note about a forum on the subject of 1919 in Asia is how awkwardly the spatial frame of "Asia" maps onto the international history of that moment. To be sure, the postwar international conjuncture, which I have elsewhere called the "Wilsonian Moment," had a revolutionary impact across Asia, perhaps more so than in any other world region outside of Europe. As the three preceding essays in this forum note, that year was a…
The Development Century
This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations of development initiatives and transnational organizing on behalf of alternative approaches. Themes include the relationship between empire and developm…
Development Century
Where in the World is the Periphery
Where exactly is the periphery of U.S. international relations? If nothing else, this useful volume should get you thinking about this question. One possible answer, a straightforward one, is delivered right on the book’s front cover, which depicts two maps, one showing Latin America and the other centered on the Middle East and stretching from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. And indeed, those among the fourteen chapters in this volume that fo…
Wilson and Lenin
The ideological clash between U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which began when the Bolsheviks took power in Russia in late 1917, was a defining moment in the international history of the twentieth century. Throughout his time in power, however, Wilson viewed the Bolshevik threat as merely one part of the global crisis of his era, a crisis that encompassed not only the ongoing world war but also a set…
Outside In
For at least a quarter of a century, American historians have sought to recast the history of the United States in a transnational frame. It is unprofitable, the argument goes, perhaps even impossible, to understand U.S. history without considering connections, comparisons, and contexts that go beyond its borders.1 Thus, diplomatic history has become the history of the “U.S. in the world,” a change designed to highlight concern with interactions …
Empires at war
Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. The volume expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed World War I, from the 1911 Italian invasion of Libya to the massive violence that follo…
The Great War as a Global War
The First World War was part of a global imperial and postimperial conflict that began in 1911 and did not end until 1923. Its supreme irony was that a war fought for the protection and expansion of empire in fact led to the dissolution of empires.
Woodrow Who
The great wave of scholarly interest in the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, which began in the early 1990s, may have waxed and waned in the years since, but it has not abated. Wilson, after all, was president at a time of great uncertainty and transformation both at home and abroad. He thought, sometimes quite deeply, about the issues of the day, and spoke, sometimes quite eloquently, about them; and he made decisions, some successful an…
A Pox on Your Narrative
Kristin L. Ahlberg, Transplanting the Great Society
July 01 2010 Kristin L. Ahlberg, Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace Erez Manela Erez Manela Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Erez Manela Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Journal of Cold War Studies (2010) 12 (3): 129–131. https://doi.or…
Entries
The "Wilsonian Moment" in East Asia
The March First Movement of 1919 was a major watershed in Korean history, but it also, this essay argues, unfolded in a global context. It was shaped by the numerous currents of change in international affairs in the wake of World War I, including the rise of Wilsonian ideas, the impact of the Russian Revolution, the possibilities inherent in the Paris peace negotiations, and the growing upheaval elsewhere in the colonial world, in East Asia and …
The Wilsonian Moment
During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims," giving equal weight would be given to the opinions of the colonized peoples and t…
Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House
Journal Article Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House Get access Hodgson Godfrey. Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 335pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Erez Manela Erez Manela Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 341–345, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709…
Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia
Imagination fails to picture the wild delirium of joy with which he [Woodrow Wilson] would have been welcomed in Asiatic capitals.It would have been as though one of the great teachers of humanity, Christ or Buddha
A Man Ahead of His Time
In recent years, Woodrow Wilson has returned to feature prominently in the public discourse on the role the United States in the world. For students US foreign relations, this is hardly a surprising development. Wilson was responsible for articulating a vision the US role in the world-usually described as internationalism-that has remained, despite well-known flaws and scores critics over the years, dominant in shaping American rhetoric and self-…
A Man Ahead of His Time? Wilsonian Glohalism and the Doctrine of Preemption
Occidentalism, The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
OCCIDENTALISM The West in Eyes of Its Enemies Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit New York: Penguin, 2004. I66pp, $33.00 cloth (ISBN 1-59420-008-4)Why do they hate us? This question has resonated widely in United States and rest of west since events of 11 September 2001, and there is nary a commentator who has not ventured an answer. The explanations have been diverse, but most have revolved around specific relationship of United States, or west more…
A Man Ahead of His Time
In recent years, Woodrow Wilson has returned to feature prominently in the public discourse on the role the United States in the world. For students US foreign relations, this is hardly a surprising development. Wilson was responsible for articulating a vision the US role in the world-usually described as internationalism-that has remained, despite well-known flaws and scores critics over the years, dominant in shaping American rhetoric and self-…
Occidentalism, The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
OCCIDENTALISM The West in Eyes of Its Enemies Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit New York: Penguin, 2004. I66pp, $33.00 cloth (ISBN 1-59420-008-4)Why do they hate us? This question has resonated widely in United States and rest of west since events of 11 September 2001, and there is nary a commentator who has not ventured an answer. The explanations have been diverse, but most have revolved around specific relationship of United States, or west more…
The Wilsonian moment and the rise of Anticolonial nationalism
This article examines the influence of Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric of national self‐determination on the Egyptian nationalist movement in 1918–20 as a case study in the impact of the Wilsonian Moment on emerging anticolonial movements. It traces the impact of Wilsonian discourse on Egyptian expectations for the postwar international order, on the way they envisioned their place within it, and on the rhetoric and actions they utilized to fulfil thes…
The Wilsonian moment and the rise of Anticolonial nationalism
This article examines the influence of Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric of national self‐determination on the Egyptian nationalist movement in 1918–20 as a case study in the impact of the Wilsonian Moment on emerging anticolonial movements. It traces the impact of Wilsonian discourse on Egyptian expectations for the postwar international order, on the way they envisioned their place within it, and on the rhetoric and actions they utilized to fulfil thes…
Goodwill and Bad
(2002). Goodwill and Bad: Rethinking US-Egyptian Contacts in the Interwar Years. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 71-88
Occidentalism
A Man Ahead of His Time
In recent years, Woodrow Wilson has returned to feature prominently in the public discourse on the role the United States in the world. For students US foreign relations, this is hardly a surprising development. Wilson was responsible for articulating a vision the US role in the world-usually described as internationalism-that has remained, despite well-known flaws and scores critics over the years, dominant in shaping American rhetoric and self-…
A Man Ahead of His Time? Wilsonian Glohalism and the Doctrine of Preemption
Occidentalism, The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
OCCIDENTALISM The West in Eyes of Its Enemies Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit New York: Penguin, 2004. I66pp, $33.00 cloth (ISBN 1-59420-008-4)Why do they hate us? This question has resonated widely in United States and rest of west since events of 11 September 2001, and there is nary a commentator who has not ventured an answer. The explanations have been diverse, but most have revolved around specific relationship of United States, or west more…
Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia
Imagination fails to picture the wild delirium of joy with which he [Woodrow Wilson] would have been welcomed in Asiatic capitals.It would have been as though one of the great teachers of humanity, Christ or Buddha
The Wilsonian Moment
During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims," giving equal weight would be given to the opinions of the colonized peoples and t…
Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House
Journal Article Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House Get access Hodgson Godfrey. Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 335pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Erez Manela Erez Manela Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 341–345, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709…
Entries
The "Wilsonian Moment" in East Asia
The March First Movement of 1919 was a major watershed in Korean history, but it also, this essay argues, unfolded in a global context. It was shaped by the numerous currents of change in international affairs in the wake of World War I, including the rise of Wilsonian ideas, the impact of the Russian Revolution, the possibilities inherent in the Paris peace negotiations, and the growing upheaval elsewhere in the colonial world, in East Asia and …
A Pox on Your Narrative
Kristin L. Ahlberg, Transplanting the Great Society
July 01 2010 Kristin L. Ahlberg, Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace Erez Manela Erez Manela Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Erez Manela Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Journal of Cold War Studies (2010) 12 (3): 129–131. https://doi.or…
Woodrow Who
The great wave of scholarly interest in the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, which began in the early 1990s, may have waxed and waned in the years since, but it has not abated. Wilson, after all, was president at a time of great uncertainty and transformation both at home and abroad. He thought, sometimes quite deeply, about the issues of the day, and spoke, sometimes quite eloquently, about them; and he made decisions, some successful an…
Empires at war
Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. The volume expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed World War I, from the 1911 Italian invasion of Libya to the massive violence that follo…
The Great War as a Global War
The First World War was part of a global imperial and postimperial conflict that began in 1911 and did not end until 1923. Its supreme irony was that a war fought for the protection and expansion of empire in fact led to the dissolution of empires.
The Development Century
This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations of development initiatives and transnational organizing on behalf of alternative approaches. Themes include the relationship between empire and developm…
Development Century
Where in the World is the Periphery
Where exactly is the periphery of U.S. international relations? If nothing else, this useful volume should get you thinking about this question. One possible answer, a straightforward one, is delivered right on the book’s front cover, which depicts two maps, one showing Latin America and the other centered on the Middle East and stretching from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. And indeed, those among the fourteen chapters in this volume that fo…
Wilson and Lenin
The ideological clash between U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which began when the Bolsheviks took power in Russia in late 1917, was a defining moment in the international history of the twentieth century. Throughout his time in power, however, Wilson viewed the Bolshevik threat as merely one part of the global crisis of his era, a crisis that encompassed not only the ongoing world war but also a set…
Outside In
For at least a quarter of a century, American historians have sought to recast the history of the United States in a transnational frame. It is unprofitable, the argument goes, perhaps even impossible, to understand U.S. history without considering connections, comparisons, and contexts that go beyond its borders.1 Thus, diplomatic history has become the history of the “U.S. in the world,” a change designed to highlight concern with interactions …
Asia in the Global 1919
Perhaps the first thing to note about a forum on the subject of 1919 in Asia is how awkwardly the spatial frame of "Asia" maps onto the international history of that moment. To be sure, the postwar international conjuncture, which I have elsewhere called the "Wilsonian Moment," had a revolutionary impact across Asia, perhaps more so than in any other world region outside of Europe. As the three preceding essays in this forum note, that year was a…
The League Against Imperialism
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide. The League against Imperialism (LAI) attracted anticolonial activists like India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta, as well as prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, Er…
International Society as a Historical Subject
Journal Article International Society as a Historical Subject Get access Erez Manela Erez Manela [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 184–209, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhz071 Published: 17 February 2020
The Anticolonial Transnational
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
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